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Obituaries: Clutton, Dunn-Graves

Playthings Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 1/10/2012 1:24:16 PM

Fisher-Price lost two members of its staff over the holidays. Stanley "Stan" Clutton, senior vice president of inventor relations for Fisher-Price, and Diana Dunn-Graves, vice president of marketing at Fisher-Price Friends.

Clutton joined Tyco Preschool in 1993 as vice president of marketing, and it was he who tapped into the inventor technology that became Tickle Me Elmo in 1996. He was promoted to senior vice president of marketing and design in 1997. In 2000, Stan assumed the role of senior vice president of inventor relations for Fisher-Price, and in 2009, he added Mattel Inventor Relations as well. He was a former LIMA (Licensing Industry Merchandisers' Association) board member and participant on their charity committee. He passed away a few days before Christmas after what the Total Licensing Report characterized as a brief battle with cancer.

Dunn-Graves started in the industry with Eden Toys and moved on to Gund as  vice president of marketing, where she launched the Gund Baby line.

In 2001, she joined Fisher-Price as director of marketing of the Girls Division. She was then tapped to head up the Infant and Newborn team, which she led for seven years, launching lines such as Laugh & Learn, Peek-a-Blocks and Amazing Animals. At the end of 2010, she was promoted to vice president of marketing at Fisher-Price Friends.

According to aNb Media, she passed away from complications from breast cancer on January 1 at the age of 49.

She is survived by her husband Andre Graves; their children, Carson and Victoria; her mother, Virginia Dunn; three sisters, one brother and their families.

For those who wish to make memorial donations, their families have made the following suggestions:

Stan Clutton: Toy Industry Foundation (TIF), Cancer Research Institute.

Diana Dunn-Graves: Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.

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